The day of the royal wedding has finally come. The castle was bustling with both safe and guests getting ready for the big event that was to unfold. A holy matrimony of two special people becoming one in marriage. All seemed well and good to all the ponies that ran about the castle, ready to celebrate the upcoming nuptials. However, Aku knew what was going on. As his little visit from the queen of the changlins pid him a little visit in his guest room last night. One would wonder why he wouldn’t tell Celestia or one of the guards about his encounter. Well, there are a couple of reasons. One being that he wanted to see just how far things went before or even if he needed to step in. And the second being that who would believe him? An outsider saying that the princess to be wed really isn’t the mare she claims to be?

Aku walked along the corridors, his eyes spotting Twilight’s friends as they all came out of the rooms and went about final preparations for the big day. There wasn’t much he could do at this point other than pretend that he was just as excited as all the ponies were. Something wasn’t right though. Where was Twilight? He hadn’t seen her at all during the morning and neither at the current time. Aku thought about it long and hard before coming to a rather unwanted conclusion. “That spell she tried to cast on me last night..she better not have or I swear I am going to break every bone in her body if one hair on her head was harmed.” he whispered to himself as he made his way to the chapel that was just outside the castle walls along with everyone else.

-A Couple Of Hours Later--

As the ceremony began, Aku immediately took notice of Shining Armor who stood at the altar. He could smell that foul magic of Chrysalis' radiating from his own. It was obvious that he was under some kind of mind control. Aku simply watched from the left side of the large room, leaning against one of the pillars with his arms folded as he watched the event unfold. As soon as he heard the large doors open at the start of the isle, he saw the ‘princess’ accompanied by flower fillies make their way down carpet as the music started playing. Aku’s eyes immediately locked on hers when she spotted him. Chrysalis’ heart nearly jumped out of her chest in both fear and arousal, nearly making her lose her cool and transform into her real self. Aku simply gestured with one of his hands ’I am watching you, bitch.’ as she made her way up to Shining’s side.

As Celestia began the ceremony now that everyone was present, Aku simply continued to stare down Chrysalis for quite a while. And just as Celestia asked if there were any objections, Aku heard Twilight shouting behind the doors that lead inside before bursting in “STOOOOOP!” she shouted. The ponies in the room gasped and spoke among each other as they were wondering what was going on. “Ugh, why does she have to be so overprotective of her brother?! I mean...why does she have to ruin my special day?!” she said with fake sobbing and lemmant in her voice. “Because it’s not your special day, it’s mine!” exclaim the real princess Cadence as she made her way in behind Twilight. Aku turned his gaze to her and saw the fire in her eyes, she was beyond pissed that her wedding day had to go like this. Then again, what bride wouldn’t be this crossed if their wedding was ruined?

Aku simply watched on from the spot he stood in as the events unfolded all while maintaining his gaze upon Chrysalis. The queen felt those eyes heavily upon her, she knew that the human was waiting for the slightest hint at her making the decision that he wouldn’t approve of. But, in her mind she had come too far to give up now. After Cadence had pointed out that she was a changeling, she lifted into the air and took her true form once more before laughing evilly and revealing her plan to the whole entire room. Aku merely continued to watch as the duel between Celestia and Chrysalis before the queen sent her army out to feed and terrorize the town. Once Twilight and the others had run off to fetch the elements, Aku stepped out from where he was hiding and approached the altar casually with his hands in his coat pockets.

“So, despite my warning, you went ahead and did what you wanted anyway, huih? Do you not remember the night before how I told you that you would be punished if you went through with this plan of yours?” he said as he now stood in front of her, his piercing eyes locking onto hers with extreme disapproval. Chrysalis shuddered as a twinge of fear rolled through her spine before putting on a brave front now that she had some of her minions with her. “Y-you should have just taken care of me when you had the chance! Now that my subjects run free and are here, you have no chance of stopping me from total domination!”. She looks at a few of the changelings near her and commands them to bind him. But as they get closer, Aku gives a ‘tch’ before removing his shroud and opens his mouth. The changelings freeze in place as both their magic and evil is sucked clean of them. The cry out in agony before collapsing to the floor in a motionless heap before Aku glares, the whites of his eyes turning black once more as they did the night before.

“So you defy your master…?” he said in a low, growling tone of voice before he makes his way over to a bound guard. He stares down at the stallion before reaching down and grabbing the sword from the sheath at his side before turning back around and dragging the blade across the ground as he approached Chrysalis once more before standing in front of the downed changelings. Ponies in the room took immediate notice of the dark purple smokey aura that flowed from around Aku’s eyes. Something wasn’t right here. Celestia could only watch from her imprisonment from above as she saw the evil that Aku had consumed flow from his eyes. This was bad. Very, very bad.

Cadence watched Aku walk towards the downed changelings with the sword in hand,”There is a far more cordial way to go about this!”. Aku now took the sword in his hand and held it over one of the changeling’s throat that laid before him. “Let me show you my cordiality. With every bit of defiance she gives me and refuses to take off from this place and never return, one of her minions will die.”. Without hesitation, Aku plunges the blade all the way through the changeling’s neck before decapitating it. “You might want to make your choice a bit faster, toy.” he said before repeatedly stabbing the next one in the chest. The whole room watched in absolute terror as Aku snuffed out the life of the changelings with such ease. Even Chrysalis herself never thought that he’d go as far as to do something like this. Aku maintained eye contact with her as he made his way over to the last changeling who was now conscious. Aku lifts his foot up and places it upon the creature’s neck and begins to press down hard. The changeling’s legs begin to kick and slam on the ground as he gasps for air and pathetically tries to push Aku’s foot off. Aku’s eyes could see that the queen was breaking on the inside despite her composure on the outside. Cadence finally spoke up to Aku. This wasn’t the right way to deal with this situation. “That’s enough! This isn’t the right way to go about this! I don’t know who you are but, I think they have had enough of this cruelty!” she shouted as she tried to get Aku to back down from killing any more of the changelings. However, Aku just smiled and gave a light ‘hmph’ before plunging the blade right in the left eye of the changeling, death was instant. The final death broke the queen entirely.

She fell to her knees and held her hands to her chest in a defensive posture before Aku walked up to Cadence. The alicorn could feel the evil radiating from the human as she leaned back as much as she could, but still with a glare of disapproval on her face. “So, you expect me to show mercy to a love stealing whore who can’t get with any stallion she wants because she is so insecure about how her true form is disgusting to the eyes? And don’t give me your righteous bullshit. You and I both know that if given the chance, she’d slaughter every single pony in here including your princess who was too damn weak to defend her own kingdom.” he said as he pointed to Celestia who was still imprisoned above.

Just as Aku stepped away from Cadence, Twilight and her friends were brought in by the changelings who had stopped them from getting the elements as Celestia had instructed them to get so they could be used to stop the changeling queen. They all watched in shock as Aku willingly swallowed down more of both magic and evil from other changelings, then proceeded to kill them in the same way he had done with the others that laid on the floor in their own blood. Aku soon smiled a wicked toothy smile. While the evil he had swallowed up had control, he was very aware of what he was doing. And it felt good, so very good.

The more he slaughtered, the more the queen’s will and focus started to waiver. Soon losing control of Shining Armor. Once Shining had come to from his trance, he also watched on as Aku continued to gruesomely dismember and cut down any changeling that was in his path, shrugging off any magic they could throw at him while Chrysalis watched on in horror, her body shaking as she was frozen in fear, Aku’s and her minions’ shadows loomed over her as he cut them down one by one. By this point, every pony that was in the room had vacated the chapel except for Twilight and her friends, Cadence, and Shining Armor who ran to Aku and suddenly pushed him down from behind. Which sent the sword that Aku was using flying out of his hand, which landed at the hooves of six mares that had been brought back in.“That’s enough, Aku! Can’t you see that you have reduced their queen to a quivering mess?! We can take it from here!”.

Aku managed to get a foot under Shining’s chest and kicked him off before getting back to his feet. That dark aura was still flowing from his eyes as he then turned his attention to Shining and Cadence. “Oh, you think your wedding day is ruined now? I can make it much, much worse for the both of you.” Just as he approached them both, Twilight slid in front of Aku with her arms out with a mixture of hurt and anger on her face. “I-I won’t let you lay a single finger on them, Aku! I thought I could trust you!”. Aku stopped for a moment as he stared at Twilight for a moment before lifting his hand up and bringing the backside of his hand right across her face, sending her flying to the left before continuing his walk towards Shining and Cadence. She lets out a whimpering cry of pain once she hits the floor.”Twilight!” her friends called out to her as they ran to their injured friend. Aku lifted his hands out to his sides and looked up at the ceiling with another smile,”I can see why being evil is so much fun! Especially when you have absolutely nothing to lose from it! After all, I have nothing in this world to gain...your only salvation for saving yourselves from me is by killing me off! So, I am going to have some fun before one of you can do so by only physical means! Your magic is absolutely useless on me!”. Aku takes a sudden inhuman leap towards Shining and Cadence before he is whacked in the back of the head with a golden decorated staff which was being used by Celestia herself. She must have finally gotten out of the chamber she had been put in by the changelings before and took it upon herself to stop Aku in his assault. Aku laid there motionless on the ground for a moment before struggling to push himself back up, slamming one of his fists into the ground before another blow was delivered to his side to knock him out cold.

--A Day Later--

Aku slowly opened his eyes which had gone back to their normal state. His vision was blurred as he felt groggy and his head hurt something fierce. He lifted his hand up to rub the spot where he had been hit to feel iron cuffs and hear the sound of chains rattling against each other. Remembering what had happened before he was knocked out, he knew exactly where he was. The dark, high walls and the barred cell door was more than enough to tell him he was in a prison cell. With his wrists and ankle bound, but enough chain to elt him roam around the cell, he gets to his feet and looks into the broken mirror at his face that was above the sink. “It was only a matter of time anyway.” he said to himself as he made his way to the bed and sat down before looking down at his hands. “While I feel no remorse for the changelings I killed, I do regret that I hurt the one person who had faith in me in this world. I am sure I screwed that up real nicely. Oh well, maybe they will execute me or something. At Least then I won’t have to worry about it happening again.”.

A few hours pass, and suddenly the cell door unlocks and swings open with a rather infuriated sun princess standing before Aku with a sword in hand as several soldiers surround him with their own blade drawn on him. Aku simply gazes up at them all and claps his hands together before sitting up straight. “Well, get it over with then. I can offer up no excuse for what I have done. I am sure that you are especially pissed at me for what I did to Twilight after she clearly wasted her time on me. And before you ask, no I felt no hint of sadness nor remorse for the changelings I mercilessly killed.” Celestia glared at him even harder as he spoke to her in such a way, She took the sword and placed it mere inches away from his neck. Aku took hold of the blade and pressed it right up against his flesh with a serious stare of his own. “Go ahead, get rid of me. It will make all of your lives that much easier. Besides, you all never wanted me here anyway. You have the PERFECT excuse now. And that means I can finally get the hell out of this world and onto the next..”. =

Author's Note

Hard to find the motivation to write these days. But I will keep trying.